President Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate Christopher Wray, a litigation partner at international law firm King & Spalding, as FBI director.

“Christopher was the leader of major fraud investigations, and was a key part of the team overseeing the Justice Department’s actions in the war on terrorism following the 9/11 attacks,” Trump said in a statement released Wednesday.

Wray currently oversees King & Spalding’s special matters and government investigations and practice that represents individuals and companies in parallel civil litigation, white collar regulatory and criminal enforcement and internal corporate investigations.

He previously worked at DOJ as assistant attorney general of the department’s criminal division between 2003 and 2005 and served as assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia from 1997 to 2001.

Wray is a Yale Law School graduate and a recipient of the Edmund J. Randolph Award.

David Pekoske, a 33-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and an adjunct faculty member at American University, will be nominated by President Donald Trump as administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.

Pekoske will bring to TSA his operational and command experience from the U.S. Coast Guard, where served as vice commandant prior to his retirement in 2010, the White House said Monday.

He also served as second-in-command and chief operating officer as well as commander of the Pacific Area and Defense Forces West.

After he completed his military career, Pekoske joined defense company A-T Solutions as a group president before it was acquired by PAE in 2015.

He went on to serve as PAE’s vice president for national programs.

Pekoske chairs the InfraGard National Members Alliance’s board of directors and is a member of The National Academies’ Naval Studies Board; the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs’ board of advisers; and Heroes Linked’s advisory board.

The General Services Administration has informed Congress of the agency’s plans to integrate the Technology Transformation Service into the Federal Acquisition Service as part of a reorganization effort, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday.

“By placing all of the offices focused on government modernization into the same organization, GSA will be better able to leverage its expertise and assets in support of the White House and its Office of American Innovation,” Tim Horne, acting GSA administrator, said in a statement published Wednesday.

Horne added that Alan Thomas, former program manager at the Defense Department, will succeed Tom Sharpe as FAS commissioner.

Thomas is a political appointee and a 23-year government and industry veteran.

Kevin Youel Page will continue to serve as deputy commissioner of FAS and Rob Cook will retain the TTS director post, the report added.

Michelle Lee has resigned from her role as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after a five-year career at the agency, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Former President Barack Obama nominated Lee for the USPTO leadership position in 2014 and the Senate confirmed her nomination in March 2015.

Lee previously held the roles of interim and deputy director at the agency.

She left USPTO two months after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and technology companies such as Cisco Systems and Facebook urged the Trump administration to retain Lee as USPTO chief for her efforts to establish standards for software patents and curb “patent trolls.”

Lee supported the establishment of a PTO regional office in San Jose, California, as part of the agency’s innovation campaign in the West Coast region.

She previously served as a general counsel and head of patent policy at Google before she joined USPTO.

The Energy Department and the Agriculture Department‘s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will provide a total of $9 million in fiscal 2017 to research and development  projects that can help boost the country’s energy independence.

The Biomass Research and Development Initiative seeks projects in the areas of biofuel development analysis, feedstock development and bio-based product development, DOE said Monday.

NIFA and DOE collectively plan to award up to 20 contracts that range from $500,000 $2 million through their joint initiative.

BRDI-funded projects will work to help both departments create renewable biomass sources, diversify the country’s energy portfolio and increase the volume of renewable fuels and other bio-based products.

Interested companies, national laboratories, universities and nonprofit organizations can submit proposals through Sept 22.